The Internet Archive has five identical versions of the doco, each with a different encoding. I've not had the inclination to fully investigate this issue as here we normally use other players nevertheless it was a strange problem unique to VLC which persisted over many releases. BTW, it's not a unique video, previous VLC releases wouldn't play the audio of many similar files.įor that 'fix' I'll be magnanimous and give v1.2.x two stars. Resolution of this longstanding issue means the old doco from Internet Archive (previously mentioned) now plays the AAC audio stream ok (all previous versions of VLC would not whereas most other players would, MPC-HC for instance).
#Vlc mac os 9.2 mp4#
I've looked at VLC 1.2.0 Pre 3 and there's little new for the user except the mp4 CODEC 'bug' to which I referred in my v1.1.10 review (Jun 6, 2011) has been fixed/resolved.
#Vlc mac os 9.2 driver#
It's the boring, tedious bits-compatibility, long-term driver stability, inappropriate interaction with the O/S and other software, and the testing of the lesser features etc. Usually, ordinary users are more easily satisfied when they find their small sub-set of features works OK for them. Usually they stick to the main features or bits the reviewer specifically uses-and if they work OK then the review is a glowing one. Many reviewers, including numbers of those who write for IT magazines, only do superficial software reviews.
I know from experience having done the job for years (often with mission-critical software too). Yet even after rigorous testing major show-stopping faults are still often found. The facts are that thoroughly evaluating software is difficult, time-consuming and demanding. By my standards it's not yet prime-time for your comments, much appreciated. Pity really, for with reasonable management and clear objectives, VLC has the potential to be a good player however, as it stands now with version 2.0.0, it's still very rough and ready. With the next semester, development starts all over again with a new group, thus we've reasons why there's an overall lack of focus in VLC's development. Some issues are improved, some fixed whilst still others are broken. Each semester a new batch of students comes along and each student is assigned a part of the project to work on. The more I see of VLC the more I reckon it's like the kernel of a student project (or is managed as such).
(As my review of 1.2.0 Pre 3 wasn't extensive, the caveat is that I've likely missed much.) (Incidentally, VLC 1.2.0 Pre 3 was on the machine prior to the installation of v2 and had been assigned streaming (and it worked), v2 broke that function.)ĭuring the brief review time I did ascertain essentially that VLC 2.0.0 still retains all the same problematic issues I encountered and outlined in the earlier 1.2.0 Pre 3 review but now with the addition of the streaming fault. In the immediate short term WMP was then reassigned the common formats/extensions and all was well again. I've only done a brief check of VLC version 2.0.0 as it completely killed the streaming audio from my radio station feeds thus was completely uninstalled after a few tests.
This is a review of Win VLC/VideoLAN 2.0.0 but essentially it's just an addition to my earlier reviews, the last one being for ver 1.2.0 Pre 3 (Jan 5, 2012).
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